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Australian investors react to Warren Buffett stepping down.

Here’s how Warren Buffett influenced Australia’s top fund managers

From Rob Luciano to Geoff Wilson and John Abernethy, Australia’s best stock pickers reflect on the impact that the Oracle of Omaha have had on their careers

Centennial’s Matthew Kidman in Sydney.

Veteran fundie reveals top ASX small cap picks

Centennial’s Level 18 Fund shifted to 50 per cent cash earlier this month. Now Matthew Kidman is preparing to pounce on the smaller end of the sharemarket.

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Firetrail’s Eleanor Swanson, Ausbil’s Arden Jennings and Ophir’s Andrew Mitchell were among the top ASX small-cap fundies.

How Australia’s best small-cap fund got its 39.6pc return

In a rare feat, Ophir has beaten rivals over every time frame in the past decade, according to Mercer. Ausbil and Firetrail rounded out the top three.

ASX said it would lift resources to deal with CHESS problems but did not quantify additional costs.

ASX forced to lift CHESS resourcing after damning RBA assessment

The market operator faces cost pressures next year amid growing regulatory scrutiny, analysts say.

April

Tim Johnson from Tyndall Asset Management.

The ASX stocks that this value investor has been busy buying

New equities boss Tim Johnston says the bull run in growth stocks is finally over, which is good news for investors like him. Here’s what he’s snapped up.

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US President Donald Trump and TSMC chairman C.C. Wei at the White House in March.

Uncertainty, volatility – here’s what investors should do next

It’s important to keep a reasonable asset allocation to the market amid the trade chaos, but key to investing through the price swings is resilience and pricing power.

Douglass sees a Trump recession – but he’s bullish on US

One of the country’s best-known stockpickers says the market is past “peak tariff uncertainty”. But many fear chances of a downturn are not yet priced in.

Cooper Investors, founded by Peter Cooper, developed a following for his idiosyncratic style.

Billions flow out of Cooper Investors as super giants pull their funds

Stockpicking success has swelled Peter Cooper’s fortune to $725 million. But it has been a steep decline in funds under management at his eponymous firm.

Chester’s Rob Tucker, Forager’s Steve Johnson and Acadian’s Zhe Chen successfully rode the market volatility.

Australia’s top equity fund (by a huge margin) has been revealed

Forager’s Johnson reclaimed top spot in Mercer’s latest survey, beating 123 other Australian equity strategies thanks to bold bets on small caps.

Regal’s Phil King has fronted investors after a horror month in markets.

Regal’s King says his hedge funds will recover from March madness

The high-profile stock picker says there are plenty of opportunities as he reassures rattled investors that a horror month can be turned around in the long term.

How these three growth funds are playing the tech slump

Some of Australia’s best performing funds, which rode the dazzling rally in Wall Street’s tech giants, have been confronted with a violent sell-off. Here’s what they did next.

While a wash of green on market screens may tempt investors to jump in, analysts are warning against irrational exuberance.

Time to go back to the basics and buy stocks like these

We, like almost every other investor on the planet, underestimated Trump’s resolve to reshape global trade and just how far he appears willing to go to do this.

ASX chief executive Helen Lofthouse joined the sharemarket operator in 2022.

ASX is facing a perfect storm. What’s it going to take to fix things?

The operator of the nation’s market infrastructure finds itself in a farcical and unacceptable position. Hopefully, it can heed the messages being blasted through.

Phil King is not expecting a bear market.

Three fundies, three very different ways to play the sharemarket

From Regal’s Phil King, who says stocks are nearing their bottom, to Airlie’s Emma Fisher, buying US-exposed equities, here are what top investors are doing.

Markets across the globe tumbled as investors digested the impact of Trump’s tariffs.

Market rout hits $97b and investors fear there are billions more to go

Brokers and fund managers said the Trump administration’s tariffs were threatening to turn into a full-blown economic crisis as global markets plunged.

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For a second year in a row, active managers in Australian fixed-income investments outperformed the passive benchmark in 2024.

Passive investors are smashing active ones – except in one key area

One of the fastest-growing asset classes in Australia is also a rare happy place for active managers. We explain why.

March

There are nine types of investor. Which are you?

This 5-minute test promises to make you a better investor

It’s never been easier to get a “money personality” assessment that offers to unlock your personal investing secrets. But is there any science to it?

Fund managers have turned bearish on oil as the outlook for the commodity price worsens.

Fundies pull money from oil with prices tipped to sink

Bullish bets on oil have been dialled back as the outlook for the commodity worsens under Donald Trump’s push for cheaper energy.

From left, Vihari Ross of Antipodes, Emma Fisher of Airlie and Julia Weng of Paradice.

13 stock picks from top female fundies (and how to trade Trump)

It’s not a comfortable time to invest as the US president shocks markets daily. But for investors who can be selective, there may be bargains.

Jun Bei Liu says the markets focus has now shifted.

Time to shake up equities after a ‘head scratcher’ earnings season

The sharemarket is starting to shift its focus away from profit growth, which means what has worked for the last 12 months may not work for the next 12.

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